I See The Train A Comin'

Here comes the train, a special trip of the Union Pacific 844 ceremonial train traveling through New Mexico as part of the Centennial Celebration (NM became a state in 1912).

Betty, Connie and Teddy were almost blown away - by the train's whistle and by the weather. It was the coldest we had been in months as we stood by the track in Vaughn and waited and watched. (There are two sets of tracks in this town, one used by the UP that runs on a diagonal across the state from El Paso (TX) to Nara Visa and the other used by the BNSF that is a mainline running east & west.)


From the Union Pacific is this information about the engine...Steam Locomotive No. 844 is the last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific Railroad. It was delivered in 1944. A high-speed passenger engine, it pulled such widely known trains as the Overland Limited, Los Angeles Limited, Portland Rose and Challenger.


Zipping down the road toward Corona it was hard to keep up with the iron horse as it faded out of sight heading south.